𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚
Valentina Seidel
@valseide , featured in our current exhibition EIGEN MODERN
In the exhibition, works from her series Eigen Brot are shown in which she portrays sculptors, poets, painters and life artists who exist at the margins of general attention.
The artistic collaboration with people for whom individuality and an autonomous creative practice are an expression of personality fascinates Valentina Seidel. The photographs were created over a four-year period in an intensive and process-based dialogue with the portrayed individuals and their environments.
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Valentina Seidel studied photography and media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Book Design in Leipzig, as well as in the classes of Nan Goldin and Michael Schmidt at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
Her works are included in collections such as the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK), the SK Foundation for Culture in Cologne, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
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Images:
1. Valentina Seidel, Cornelius (aus der Werkgruppe „Eigen Brot“), 2013, Pigmentdruck auf Alu-Dibond, 91 x 70 cm
2. Exhibition View „EIGEN MODERN“, Georg Brückmann
@georg_brueckmann , 2025
3. Valentina Seidel, Conny (aus der Werkgruppe „Eigen Brot“), 2013, Pigmentdruck auf Alu-Dibond, 91 x 70 cm
4. Valentina Seidel, Simone (aus der Werkgruppe „Eigen Brot“), 2013, Pigmentdruck auf Alu-Dibond, 91 x 70 cm
5. Exhibition View „EIGEN MODERN“, Georg Brückmann
@georg_brueckmann , 2025
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![Valentina Seidel @valseideJoachim Brohm @joachimbrohm
Michael Pleißner #michaelpleißner
1 November – 13 December 2025—
Anyone familiar with the work of Valentina Seidel and Joachim Brohm will immediately recognize the interplay between the two in the exhibition title EIGEN MODERN. Valentina Seidel, for instance, has created a photographic project titled Eigen Brot (“Own Bread”), dedicated to society’s outsiders, while Joachim Brohm, in several photo series and books, has explored the architecture of Classical Modernism – for example, the afterlife of Mies van der Rohe’s buildings.In this exhibition, both strands are interwoven: Seidel’s photographs of outsiders are shown alongside Brohm’s images of modernist architecture. Yet, there is also a third element. The two artists have invited an outsider, Michael Pleißner, as a guest artist. He contributes a series of dream houses – both architectural models and sculptures – whose intricate, ornamental forms stand in striking contrast to the purity ideals of Classical Modernist architecture. […]
Text excerpt by Wolfgang Ullrich @ideenfreiheit—
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